Furniture rest or shoe



Patented May 12, 19 31 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WALTER. E. HEROLZD, E UPPER MONTCLAIR, NEw JERSEY, ASSIGNOR. To HE izAssrox COMPANY, 0E BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF coNNECTI T;

FURNITURE REST on SHOE Application filed January 19, 1929. Serial No. 333,581.

A further ob]ect is to provide a slide of this :typeadapted to be driven into the leg by hammer blows, and especially to provide a device which may be attached with great facility and accuracy, and by persons relatively unskilled in the use of tools. To this end I provide a construction adapted to have a driving attachment-rigidly connected to the part of the rest to be driven into the leg, in such relation that the same may be held and maintained in proper alignment during the driving operation, and the force of the hammer blows most effectively directed.

Another object is to provide a construction, which when driven into the leg will be firmly retained and held against pulling strains, and further to provide such a construction which may be driven into the end grain of wooden legs, without the danger of splitting or cracking them. It is further proposed to provide cushioning means adapted "3 to absorb twisting and side strains, which might otherwise tend to loosen the attaching means. I

Further objects are to provide a device of simple construction, adapted to be economi 1 Cally produced by modern manufacturingmethods, and which will be durable and reliable in use, and attractive in appearance.

With the above and other objects in view, an embodiment of the invention is shown in i 5 the accompanying drawings, and this embodiment will be hereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and the invention will be finally pointed out in the I claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a furniture rest or shoe, according to the present embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View, partly in elevation.

Fig. f is a vertical sectional View showing the same about to be driven into a furniture leg, and with the driving attachment in place.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view showing the device driven into thefurniture leg.

Fig. 6 is a similar View showing the tilted position.

Referring to the drawings, the furniture rest or shoe, according tothe present embodiment of the invention, comprises a base 10, preferably solid and formed of bakelite or other suitable material, having a flat floor-engaging bottom surface 11, and a flat upper surface 12. A central opening 13- extends vertically through the base, being restricted, as at 14, to'provide an annular shoulder, and being flared outwardly above said shoulder, as at 15.

Upon the upper side of the base there is provided cushioning layer 16, of rubber, felt, or other suitable material having elasticity, and this is secured by cementing, or other suitable means. A central aperturel? is provided in thelayer 15in line with'the opening of the base, and adapted to receive the attaching stud, as will presently more fully appear. I

The attaching means consists of a tubular stud or pin 18 loosely engaged-for tilting base. Annular ridges 20 are provided upon the stud in spaced relation above the head 19 and are adapted to frictionally engage within the opening 17 of the cushioning layer,

.35 minating inwardly of the lower surface of'the to thereby retain the parts in connected rela-f tionf ,4 J

The portion of the pin above the ridges; 20 is of cylindrical form, andits upper end is sharpened by beveling the inner surface, as

at 2].. 5 v j V 1 The device is adapted to be driven intov the furniture leg, preferably into the end grain of the wood, by'hammer blows applieddirectly upon the tubularcenter pin, andwith- ,109

" I have illustrated and described a out engaging the tilting base, and for this purpose a driving pin 22 is supplied with each set of rests. A shoulder 23 is provided at the upper end of the driving pin of substantially the diameter of the tubular center pin, and also there is provided a projecting stud 24 adapted to be inserted in the opening of the center pin, so that the latter is thereby rigidly connected and supported in axial relation upon the driving pin. The length of the combined driving pin and rest is such that in driving the latter into the furniture leg the same may be accurately held in aligned relation with the leg during the driving, andthe force of the blows is transmitted directly to the center pin.

The tubular pin, due to the beveled inner surface of the cutting edge and the cylindrical outer surface, enters the wood without exerting any outward'splitting or cracking strains,'the cylindrical cut produced being no larger than the outer diameter of the tube. At the same time a dowel 25 ofthe wood is compressed and wedged within thetube, and due to the natural elasticity ofthe wood this dowel "exerts a constant outward pressure against the inner wall of the tube and effectually resists outward pull on the device.

The compression of the dowel is twice the thickness of the wall of the tubular pin, or 'in other words with a tube having a wall thickness of .020 of an inch, the dowel is compressed .040 of an inch. In practice it has been found with these dimensions that upon removing the device from the wood the dowel would increase about .015 in diameter, showing that a constant outward retaining pressure is exerted due to the elasticity of the wood. The wood grain lines shown at 26 Figs. 4, 5 and 6, clearly show the manner in which the tubu'lar pin compresses the wood dowel, without exerting outward strains on the surrounding wood structure.

In this attached relation the cushioning layer is slightly compressed, so that when the leg is tilted, as shown in Fig. 6, the layer is further compressed atone side and expands the parts is maintained.

preferred and satisfactory embodiment of the mit relative tilting movement between them, and attaching means comprising a lower portion loosely engaged in said opening of the base, an intermediate portion having means interlockingly secured in said aperture of the resilient means, and an upper portion adapted to be driven into the furniture leg by -blows directly applied to said lower portion.

2..A furniture rest, comprising a floor engaging base having an opening extending therethrough from top tobottom, resilient said opening of the base whereby said attaching means is adapted to be driven by blows directly appliedthereto. V

3. A furniture rest, comprising a floor engaging base having an openingextending therethrough from top to bottom, resilient means disposed at the upper side of said base adapted to be interposed between the furniture leg and the base to-permit relative tilting movement between them, and attaching means comprising a tubular stud adapted to be driven into the furniture leg, and including a driving portion disposed within said opening of the base whereby said attaching means is adapted to be driven by blows directly applied thereto, said tubular stud-having anupper cutting edge beveled at its inner side only and adapted to out a dowel of said furniture leg of a diameter corresponding to its outer diameter and to compress said dowel within it to correspond to its inner diameter.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of.

Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, this 18th day of January,

1929. WALTER F. HEROLD.

'at'the other side, so that a snug relation of invention,butit will-be obvious that changes may be made therein, within the spirit and defined in the appended I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A furniture rest, comprising a floor engaging base having an opening extending therethrough fromtop to bottom, resilient means disposed at the upper side of said base having a central aperture in line with the opening of said base adapted to be interposed between the 'furniture'leg and the base to perinc 

